• Is the sun sleeping on the job?
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[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43620916]Sun confirmed for bi-polar disorder.[/QUOTE] So how large of a Xanax prescription is it gonna need?
[QUOTE=monkey11;43620840]How do you have Albert Einstein as your avatar but such a poor grasp on science.[/QUOTE] How do you have Io as your avatar but such a poor grasp on Omnipotence.
translation "now would be an awsome time to do a round trip to mars, since we are seeing no deadly deadly solar flairs, you chumps missed the once-in-a-hundred-year window of opportunity to go to mars"
[QUOTE=Sir M;43619276][b][i]Nuke the sun[/i][/b][/QUOTE] This needs to be some kind of a band name.
We should [I]fire [/I]the sun for sleeping on the job. [sp]Or if you're super specific, we should nuclear fusion the sun, then hire a new one[/sp]
[QUOTE=Sir M;43619276][b][i]Nuke the sun[/i][/b][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XYEhwLt.png[/IMG]
[URL="http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/21/north-korea-lands-first-ever-man-on-the-sun-confirms-central-news-agency/"]http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/21/north-korea-lands-first-ever-man-on-the-sun-confirms-central-news-agency/[/URL] Koreans did it
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;43622907]So how large of a Xanax prescription is it gonna need?[/QUOTE]Let's assume a dose of a 1mg tablet once every 24 hours for a 70kg person. Tbh I have no idea how often one usually takes it, but the half-life of immediate release variant is listed on Wikipedia as 11.2 hours, so let's roll with that. The Sun's mass is 1.9891×10^30 kilograms (1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg!), which is very roughly equivalent to 28.4157x10^27 (28,415,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 28,415 million million million) people weighing 70kg, or 9.9455x10^27 Americans at 200kg (hurr hurr hurr) Since we're using a 1mg pill, this makes things easier, so 28.4157x10^27 milligrams of the active ingredient of Xanax, alprazolam. Since the actual pills contain more than just the active ingredient, the mass of Xanax pills needed would be much greater. I haven't a clue what the actual mass of a Xanax 1mg pill is, so let's just go for the active ingredient. 28.4157x10^27 milligrams is 28.4157x10^21 kilograms, and is roughly 0.475% the mass of the Earth, which is 5.97219×10^24 kg; or 38.67% of the moon, which is 7.3477 × 10^22kg. Remember that scene in Iron Sky where the Nazis blast a chunk of the Moon off to get a clear shot at the earth? Think bigger. So to give the Sun a regular prescription of 100% pure alprazolam (since I cba finding the total mass of a single 1mg Xanax pill), we'd need to create a huge chunk of it a little over a third of the total mass of the Moon every day. If we wanted to keep this regime up for a year, we'd need 10.3717x10^24 kilograms of it in total, or 170% of the Earth's total mass. There's probably errors in this beyond my fanatical fudging and rounding, so if you are going to medicate the Sun, use this only as a very rough guide and not as the final medical prescription.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43619543]Actually its nuclear fusion, not burning.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.colourbox.com/preview/2703356-383733-a-child-school-boy-pushing-his-glasses-up-with-a-finger.jpg[/img] [QUOTE=Clavus;43619991]Funny thing is, because it's such a gigantic chaotic system, you can build a model and around the probability of events occurring. This news just means that model isn't refined enough. It's like predicting the weather.[/QUOTE] being able to guess the probability of events doesn't mean it's not chaotic. Our weather is chaotic and can change pretty rapidly without warning. This article proves that. "It's only chaotic when we don't know what's going on."
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